Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

1108	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

1109	Nobel Reflections
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

1111	Do higher fixed pay scales create better faculty?
	Anurag Agrawal
1111	Teaching and research
	Samir Kr. Saha
1111	Guazuma ulmifolia, an abundant tree species in Chennai
	D. Senthil
1112	Mangrove forest cover of Visakhapatnam coast is under threat
	P. K. Swain, N. Rama Rao and Chiranjibi Pattanaik
1114	Calophyllum inophyllum: an apomict or a true seed?
	Veena Gupta, Anjali Kak, Kavya Dashora, Meenakshi Bhardwaj and Anjali Gupta

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RESEARCH NEWS

1115	A ‘FLASH’ in the synthesis of graphene
	C. Srinivasan and R. Saraswathi

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OPINION

1117	Ayurveda: scientific research and publications
	Bhushan Patwardhan and Ashok D. B. Vaidya
1121	Otoliths – the biological CD-ROMs of fish
	K. V. Radhakrishnan, W. He, M. Liu and S. Xie

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COMMENTARY

1123	Changing profile of undergraduate level science teaching in India with special reference to biology
	Kambadur Muralidhar and B. K. Tripathi
1126	Teaching and research – a lifestyle option and a lifetime experience
	S. C. Dutta Roy

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GENERAL ARTICLE

1128	Bioethics, medicine and society – a philosophical inquiry
	Vijay Kumar Yadavendu and Deepak Kumar

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

1137	Evaluation of changes in oil cells and composition of essential oil in lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus (D.C.) Stapf.) due to supplemental ultraviolet-B irradiation
	Rima Kumari, S. B. Agrawal and Abhijit Sarkar
1143	Status and distribution of the endangered Gangetic dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica) in the Brahmaputra River within India in 2005
	Abdul Wakid
1152	Bathymetry prediction over a part of the Bombay High in the western offshore using very high resolution satellite gravity data
	R. Bhattacharyya and T. J. Majumdar

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SPECIAL SECTION: CIVIL ENGINEERING RESEARCH

1162	Natural analogs for improved understanding of coupled processes in engineered earth systems: examples from karst system evolution
	Harihar Rajaram, Wendy Cheung and Abhijit Chaudhuri
1177	Applications of SPH with the acceleration correction algorithm in structural impact computations
	Amit Shaw and S. R. Reid
1187	Is the inverse problem technique appropriate for structural health assessment?
	Achintya Haldar
1196	Assimilation of remote sensing and hydrological data using adaptive filtering techniques for watershed modelling
	Sat Kumar, M. Sekhar and S. Bandyopadhyay
1203	An approximate approach for nonlinear system response determination under evolutionary stochastic excitation
	Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou and Pol D. Spanos
1212	Novel technologies for sniffing soil and ground water contaminants
	Pradeep U. Kurup
1220	Pseudo-time marching schemes for inverse problems in structural health assessment and medical imaging
	H. M. Varma, B. Banerjee, A. K. Nandakumaran, R. M. Vasu and D. Roy

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1227	Activation of aerial oxygen to superoxide radical by carbon nanotubes in indoor spider web trapped aerosol
	Sumit Kumar Sonkar, Shweta Tripathi and Sabyasachi Sarkar
1230	Impact of the 2004 earthquake on the limestone caves in North and Middle Andaman Islands
	S. Manchi and R. Sankaran
1234	U–Pb zircon age for a granite intrusion within the Shyok suture zone, Saltoro Hills, northern Ladakh
	Rajeev Upadhyay
1239	Evidences for seawater–rock hydrothermal interaction in the serpentinites from Northern Central Indian Ridge
	Dwijesh Ray, Ranadip Banerjee, Sridhar D. Iyer and Subir Mukhopadhyay
1243	Catch-up growth during juvenile life can compensate for the small metamorphic size in Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis
	N. P. Gramapurohit

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BOOK REVIEWS

1247	Transits and Occultations in Indian Astronomy by S. Balachandra Rao and Padmaja Venugopal
	reviewed by Ajit Kembhavi
1248	1970s America – An Indian Student’s Journey by Anil K. Rajvanshi
	reviewed by Navin Singhi
1249	Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA by Catherine Brady
	reviewed by Gaiti Hasan
1251	Clouds in the Perturbed Climate System: Their Relationship to Energy Balance, Atmospheric Dynamics, and Precipitation, J. Heintzenberg and R. J. Charlson (eds)
	reviewed by J. Srinivasan
1251	Biodiversity of Parasite-Fauna: Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh Himalayas by R. C. Bhagat
	reviewed by N. P. Singh

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COVER CAPTION

COVER.  The many facets of civil engineering. See special section.

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